Leveraged Buyouts: A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity, + Website

Praise for Leveraged Buyouts

"Pignataro's books are exceptional guides to finance and LBO analysis. Leveraged Buyouts, particularly, is a fantastic primer for those looking to understand the practical application of private equity. If A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the bible for understanding the financial world, Pignataro's books are the bible for understanding the application."
—Fred Coulson, Founder and Managing Partner, Five Elms Capital

"Paul's approach to financial modeling and valuation is a great road map for anyone looking to develop the skill set necessary to work on complex financial transactions. His replicable process is a great foundation for investment professionals and simplifies transaction and valuation analysis with a step-by-step approach and real-world examples."
—Eric J. Bruun, Managing Director, CID Capital

"From our view at Graham Partners, Leveraged Buyouts provides an excellent technical guide for young private equity and investment banking professionals, who need to be capable of building an analytical model to evaluate and price a leveraged buyout, and then need to be able to explain their thinking to the firm's most senior personnel. Paul Pignataro's writing is clear and straightforward, and we have made Leveraged Buyouts required reading for new personnel on the Graham Partners team."
—Steven C. Graham, Senior Managing Principal, Graham Partners

"Leveraged Buyouts is an extremely valuable 'how-to-do-it' primer on fundamental and advanced analytic techniques for creating and evaluating private equity acquisition models. Its ongoing dissection of the creative acquisition of H. J. Heinz by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital will be of great practical interest to students, finance professionals, and investors."
—Charles H. McGill, Adjunct Finance Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

"From the bootstrap deals of the '70s, to the $26 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco in the '80s, to today's $28 billion blockbuster deal for Heinz, LBOs have transformed the capital markets and the way in which companies are bought and sold. Yet, other than a handful of Wall Street practitioners, few understand how they work. In Leveraged Buyouts, Paul Pignataro does a masterful job of using the Heinz deal to explain the intricacies of LBOs, making his book a must-read for any aspiring investment professional or anyone with an interest in finance."
—Jack Perkowski, Founder and Managing Partner, JFP Holdings Ltd.

"Anyone who wants to become an expert at leveraged buyouts must read this book. Paul's expertise in this area is invaluable and this book is a straightforward 'how-to' guide that is a must have addition to any finance library."
—Obed Cepeda, Portfolio Manager, Bishop, Rosen & Co.